Lancfan's BOAC Dakota ***Finished***

[lancfan]

The second camouflage colour, Dark Green (Revell Aqua 68) has been applied by brush, even though this is an airliner it looks quite military at this stage without the civil registration and tricolour bands to mark it as a WW2 BOAC aircraft.


David.

[DavidWomby]

Nice paint job - especially if the green was brushed.

David

[gnomemeansgnome]

Niiiice.

[PaulBradley]

Coming along nicely, David.

[lancfan]

Cheers David, gmg, Paul.

David.

[lancfan]

In order to make the black underside look more convincing I tried an little experiment, I primed the underside in Revell Aqua Anthracite and then applied three sparingly applied thin washes of matt black to give a faded patchy appearance, it seems to have worked but I will not know how well until the model is finished.



David.

[VickersVandal]

I'm convinced :D

[AndrewR]

Yes,that's a definite improvement on a uniform black surface.

[lancfan]

This is how the model looked last night, I now have less than 90 minutes to complete this before the GB ends, much of what little remains to be done is pre-painted but this could still be a DNF build.


David.

[PaulBradley]

Err... The GB runs through Sunday, David!

[theconfidencestoat]

Lovely work David.

[lancfan]

So it does Paul, thanks for correcting me- in that case I'm OK and will easily finish on time.

David.

[Stuart]

Lovely work David! It's looking super!

So is this the same mould they used for the AC-47 kit or was that an earlier one?

Cheers

Stuart

[lancfan]

This is the Italeri tooling Stuart, the Airfix AC-47A was based on the earlier (original) tooling that is now retired.

David.

[lancfan]

All that remained to be fitted to finish the model was the undercarriage, propellers, aerials etc. and landing lights and with these done the model is now complete.
Passenger configured C-47 Dakota IV G-AGKN in commercial use by BOAC, 1942.





David.